This is the Grammar Guy column, a weekly feature written by Curtis Honeycutt. It’s no secret we live in an era of relativism. What’s right for you may not be right for me. You do you. Whether things ...
Consider one of William Strunk’s better pieces of advice in “The Elements of Style”: “Omit needless words.” Now consider this rejoinder from University of Edinburgh Linguistics professor Geoffrey ...
In eighth grade when I read that Julius Caesar had an aquiline nose, I mistakenly thought it had something to do with water. But aquiline is from Latin aquila, meaning eagle, not aqua, water. He had a ...
The first sentence of Herman Melville’s classic Moby Dick begins, “Call me Ishmael.” Ishmael may or may not be the narrator’s real name (thank you, CliffsNotes), but Ishmael’s is a self-label. Heck, ...
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What does the word ‘recondite’ mean? When you need to decode all things complex, here’s what to know
The word “recondite” means something difficult or impossible for someone with ordinary knowledge to understand. It is an ...
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